Is any chore more humbling than cleaning the refrigerator? Every few weeks, I cringe as I scrape up leftovers that never met the microwave and toss produce that never saw the stove. Philadelphia indie rockers Remember Sports have long documented mundane shames like this; their sophomore record All of Something ended with a song about washing blood out of bedsheets.
Their fifth, The Refrigerator, takes many more passes at the humiliating cycles of domesticity: shoes you tie that will come undone, food waste you forget and then-ew-rediscover. “Say that there’s more to life than cleaning up my room,” singer Carmen Perry belts and pleads on the fuzzy single “Bug,” a song in which she steps on a leftover chip from a bowl she ate days earlier.